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Date:      Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:24:41 +0200
From:      "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
To:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 4 Xeon processors ?
Message-ID:  <37F09769.824A745C@we.lc.ehu.es>

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Hello to all "satanic" fellows :-)

I am considering to set up an X-terminal server running FreeBSD, with
four Pentium III Xeon processors and 512MB-1GB RAM. This machine
should service about 40 simultaneous X-users (running Netscape,
Wordperfect, editors, LaTeX... mainly interactive use). I know that
FreeBSD's SMP support is limited by the fact that the kernel is a big
critical section, but in any case I would love to hear any experiences
from people using similar configurations in a "many X-users" environment.

With respect to the server, I like the Dell PowerEdge 6300. Does
FreeBSD run trouble-free on this machine? Does anybody know?

Of course, I am open to any suggestions :-)

TIA,
-- JMA
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José Mª Alcaide                         | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es
Universidad del País Vasco              | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.ORG
Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica     | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose
Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.:  +34-946012479
48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN          | Fax:   +34-946013071
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